One thing I forgot to mention at the banquet with regard to the Blizzard Cup was the points, which may be of interest to some people. The club cup is calculated by taking the top five beers from each club, which gives smaller clubs a chance against bigger clubs. In this case, the SPHBC had about 14 golds and MHBA had 5 golds so it came down to average score. With an average score of 41 SPHBC won out over MHBA which averaged 38. ----- Original Message ----- From: Al Boyce To: mba(a)thebarn.com ; sphbc(a)sphbc.org ; mnbrewers(a)yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 8:07 PM Subject: 2006 Upper Mississippi Mash-Out reults are online! The RESULTS from the 2006 Upper Mississippi Mash-Out are online! http://www.mnbrewers.com/events/mashout/2006mashout.htm The Upper Mississippi Mash-Out was held this weekend, Jan 20-21, in St. Paul, Minnesota. * We judged 561 entries from 21 different states * 96 Mash-Out volunteers helped from 7 different states * We awarded 84 medals, one for each of the 28 BJCP Beer, Mead and Cider categories * We also awarded 6 more medals for the NEW BREWER category, and the EIS-ANYTHING category * We awarded 5 MORE medals to the 5 brewpubs who donated to our volunteers' "Indoor Pub Crawl" on Friday * We awarded 2 hand-made, laser-engraved Mash-Out Chalices for Best-of-Show, one for Beer, one for Mead-Cider * We awarded another hand-made, laser-engraved chalice for the Midwest Brewer of the Year program * Entries came from 162 unique brewing teams. * We awarded over $3000 worth of prizes to brewers from 37 different sponsors * Over $1000 worth of door prizes were distributed at the awards ceremony * 100 6-course dinners were served at our Saturday night Beer Banquet * 288 commemorative "Five Years of Pour Decisions" pint glasses were given away * 45 collectors item 5th Anniversary t-shirts were purchases THANKS TO EVERYONE who entered and helped out!!! If you weren't there - SORRY YOU MISSED THE PARTY!!! See you next year - Jan 26-27, 2007 - St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mnbrewers.com/events/mashout/